THIS FORMER VOX BLOG ARCHIVING THE HISTORY OF THE COVENTRY MUSIC SCENE IS CURRENTLY BEING SCALED DOWN. RELEVANT POSTS ARE BEING REDEVELOPED / UPDATED ON THE NEW SITES BELOW WHICH RE-CATORGISE POSTS IN TERMS OF SUBJECT AREA - EG BANDS / UMBRELLA CLUB / DISCOS AND VENUES. FOLLOW THE LINKS TO VIEW THE NEW UPDATED CONTENT. REDEVELOPMENT IS STILL IN PROGRESS THOUGH AND HENCE SOME POSTS WILL REMAIN HERE FOR A WHILE.

HISTORY

Hobo - Coventry Music Scene Archives was a not-for - profit site, originally on Vox until they closed and the began in 2006, enjoying good feedback from the many Coventry musicians and fans who found it. The network is more likely to be on Facebook these days but the material remains here on Typepad. The closure of Vox resulted in the site being archived on Typepad while I redevelop / revise and reorganise the material on the sites below.

HOBO Magazine itself was a grassroots not for profit Coventry Music and Arts magazine in Coventry c 1973 -5 intitated by Trev Teasdel and John Bargent (Bo) - we also ran the HOBO WORKSHOP gigs at the Holyhead Youth Centre, to encourage new bands and artists 1974 - 5 - later moving to the Golden Cross. This site and the new ones are home to my own and collected archives of the Coventry Music Scene.

HOBO - COVENTRY MUSIC ARCHIVES - NEW SITES

The following new sites are still works in progress -

A to Z of Coventry Bands directory

Here https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/

This is a huge comprehensive directory of bands fromthe 60's onwards, with bios, photos, You tube and links. Posts about bands on this site have (or will be) re-created on the the A to Z.

HOBO - COVENTRY MUSIC SCENE BLOGSPOT

Here http://coventrymusicarchives.blogspot.com/

Contains pdf copies of Hobo Magazine as well as issues which were not released at the time owing to lack of money! This site will contain all the posts relating to articles and features from Hobo as well as press cuttings and publicity etc. It will also house posts on other Coventry (and Birmingham) music magazines.

COVENTRY ARTS UMBRELLA CLUB

Here http://coventryartsumbrella.blogspot.com/

The Umbrella club was an important feature of the early Coventry Literary, music and folk and Arts scene. There are many posts relating to it on this site but we felt it it deserved its own site as part of the Coventry Music Archives. Features on the Goons who opened the Umbrella, Phillip Larkin who wrote about his Coventry poem I Remember in Umbrella magazine, the first Coventry folk club and some of the roots of Two Tone happened at the Umbrella.

COVENTRY FOLKCLUB SCENE

Here http://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/

This is a new part - all of the posts realting to Coventry folk / acoustic artists or Folks magazine and folk and acoustic venues are gradually being re-devloped on this blogspot. It will include Rod Felton, Dave Bennett, Rob Armstrong, John Shannahan, Gilly Darbey, Jami Lord, Pete Willow's Folks magazine and a history of folk clubs in Coventry.

COVENTRY GIGS 1960 TO PRESENT

Here http://coventrygigs.blogspot.com/

Ostensibly, this blog was created to archive Pete Clemon's Rock of Ages columns inthe Coventry Telegraph, in which he is gradually documenting all the gigs by both local and national bands and artists in Coventry! As he publishes each new column, he sends me a copy to archive. a great resource. I have / or am adding in some of the relevant material from this site eg on Lanchester Poly and Warwick University Arts festivals, DJ's and Discos, Pete Waterman in Coventry, Coventry Chart hits 1960 to present, Trev Teasdel's Music Scene diary 1971, Virgin Records Charts (Coventry store) and more.

Coventry Discos / Venues / DJ's etc. http://covdiscoarchive.blogspot.co.uk/

This site houses posts from this site that were about Coventry discos / venues / record shops / studios etc and the books and projects - including the Coventry Music Museum / 2 Tone Central by Pete Chambers. Still a work in progress.

COVENTRY MUSICIANS WHO'S WHO

Here http://covmusicwhoswho.blogspot.com/

This was first developed on Typepad - Coventry Music Timeline for the More Than Two Tones Exhibition in 2009. It is now hosted on its own blogspot as part of the Coventry Music Archives. Much more to be done to it but its off to a good start.

Hope you enjoy the material both onthis site and the new developing sites, which will hopefully up date on most of the posts.

Trev Teasdel 2011

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07/05/2010

Hobo Coventry Music Archive site

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Trev Teasdel 1973 (Cov Telegraph)

Hobo - Coventry music History on the old vox blog was created by Trev Teasdel in 2006 being primarily the archives from Hobo Music Magazine which he ran in Coventry in the 1970's. Material on newer Coventry bands and artists has also been added along the way. This site is now hosted by Typepad since Vox closed down and a new A to Z of Bands is being created via Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/site/bandsfromcoventry/

Hobo - Coventry Music and Arts Magazine was founded in 1973 by Trev Teasdel and John Bargent (Bo) with other editors joining - Babs Wainwright, Arthur Brown. Pete Waterman wrote a Soul article for it and supplied a Soul Chart and advert from his Soul Hole Record shop in Coventry c1974.

The Hobo Music and Arts Workshop was established at the Holyhead Youth Centre in Coventry autumn 1974 (and later upstairs at the Golden Cross) with support from Coventry Voluntary Service Council. The Hobo Workshop gave first gigs to quite a number of bands, some of whose musicians went on to play in Two Tone bands or made it in some way in the music business. The Reluctant Stereotypes (from which 80's band King developed) had their early roots there. Neil O'Connor (Hazel's brother) played there with Midnight Circus (later re-branded The Flys), Dave Pepper (later with XTC) had his first gig there. Charley Anderson and some of the Two Tone musicians jammed with Neol Davies below four years before Two Tone was created. Much more too.

John Bargent (Bo) - Co- Founder of Hobo 1973

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08/09/2009

WELCOME TO HOBO -COVENTRY'S MUSIC MAGAZINE ARCHIVES OF THE 1970'S AND BEYOND

WELCOME

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A HISTORY OF THE COVENTRY MUSIC SCENE IN THE 1970'S BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY RESTRICTED TO THE 70'S. A RESOURCE FOR RESEARCHERS, FILM MAKERS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS AS WELL AS FOR THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT THE COVENTRY MUSIC SCENE IN THE YEARS BEFORE TWO TONE BROKE AND THOSE WHO WERE INVOLVED OR AROUND AT THE TIME.

HOBO WAS A 1970'S COVENTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE AND THE HOBO WORKSHOP AT THE HOLYHEAD YOUTH

John Bargent (Bo)- A co-founder of Hobo

CENTRE WAS OUR MUSIC VENUE. It was run by Trev Teasdel - along with various co-editors at various times including Bo (John Bargent - orginal c0-founder), Barbara Wainwright, Arthur Brown.

Pete Waterman contributed a Soul Hole article and advertised his Soul Hole Record Store prior to fame.

WE WELCOME FEEDBACK.

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Check out Charley Anderson's latest - Ghetto Child

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Charley Anderson and The Selecter

Charley was the bass player in the original Selecter

later with the People Band and Skalatones.

November sees the launch of the research and development of a COVENTRY MUSIC EXHIBITION at the Herbert Musem that will open to the public in October 2009. Neol Davies is organising a Two Tone jam session to both launch the exhibition and celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Two Tone.

HOBO INFORMATION

Early Dando Shaft and New Modern Idiot Grunt Band tracks available HERE

1ST TWO TONE RECORD - GANGSTERS / THE SELECTER

TT1 AND TT2 1979 - Paper Label - Plain White Sleeve (No date Stamp)

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Colin Richardson has one for sale at half the Catalogue Value £7.50

If interested e mail on [email protected]

NEW COVENTRY VOX BLOG FROM HOBO MAGAZINE -

COVMUSIC TIMELINE NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO GUIDE RESEARCHERS FOR THE COVENTRY MUSIC EXHIBITION - VIEW AND COMMENT AND WATCH IT GROW - WILL BE A WORK IN PROGRESS FOR A WHILE.

The COVENTRY ARTS UMBRELLA - Opened by Harry Secombe and the The Goons in 1955 has seeded both

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the music and the poetry scene in Coventry. The first folk club in Coventry was held there in the 60's. In the 70's Two Toners - Neol Davies and John Bradbury frequented the Umbrella. It has a long history and in 2005 the Umbrella celebrated it's half century anniversary with a poetry broadcast on BBC Radio Coventry and the launch of a poetry anthology - UNDER THE UMBRELLA.

The Anthology is available from the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery shop. There will be a new post on this about it soon and they have a website www.umbrellaclub.org.uk

Loving New Cov Band Rider at the moment (check them out on Vox) BOOKS

* Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat - launch

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Pete Chambers launches his well produced new book on Cov Music

Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with the "Specials"

Horace Panter

replete with fantastic photos of Cov's rich musical heritage. At £5.99 it's a must buy for anyone passionate about Cov Music.
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Read about Horace's New Book HERE

NOW IN PAPERBACK FOR £7.99

THE GNOME LABEL

THE NEW CO-OPERATIVE RECORD LABEL!

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The former Coventry Magazine - Broadgate Gnome launched their new Co-operative Record Label! The idea began in Coventry in 1970 as an alternative to the music business - an early form of the music collectives that formed in the 80's, along with gig-swopping networks to enable bands to play further afield. TwoToner Neol Davies and Selecter Producer Roger Lomus were among those who performed at the initial gigs years before Two Tone.

"We work on the principle of Mutual Aid and devote our time to actively promoting an alternative to the big business of the Music Industry. We have no paid employees but rely on a collective of experienced people who believe in the ethic of cooperation. This is a project that has been 40 years in the making, which is now made possible by new technology.."
The Gnome are aiming for four releases each quarter and to develop from there (keep an eye on their site for details and developments) - Gnome Label and Gnome Fest

More details on these can be found on the Gnome Label site Here

The Gnome wrote -
"Songs from the Coventry Underground Is a collection of the earlier songs from poet and performer Trev Teasdel.

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It is very apt that he should feature at the very beginning of our Retro-Cov platform.
This is the guy that played an important role in the development of Coventry musical conciousness. He kept an alternative voice alive with the production of Hobo magazine that continued the trail from where the fading footprints of the Gnome could still be identified. Taking over the booking of live bands at the Arts Umbrella, he continued the policy that allowed many of the new local bands an airing as well as bringing in some excellent but not often seen names from outside of the City.
He also created one of the cornerstones of the Coventry Music scene, with the inception of the open jam sessions at the Holyhead Road Arts centre.
He left Coventry to study and has since been as active as ever, with an impressive workload of teaching new writers, running poetry magazines and venues from his Teesside home while still writing and performing his own material.
But that's not the only reason for choosing his work for this release. He is a master craftsman of his artform. His lyrics are carefully honed with the

Just Before Dawn

occasional surprise. The working of the words " under the Speenhamland scheme" into the lyric of Captain Swing, written some 20 years before the arrival of Billy Bragg, is phenomenal and deserves a place in the record books.
Aside from that, his work reverberates with the angst and expectations that many living in Coventry at the that time will have felt. Often written on long walks home up the London Road after the last bus, or in teabreaks while working at the GEC. The collective lyrics paint a picture of youthful exhilaration and myradiacl inspirations with echoes of revolt. Some might suggest that they could have been written in and about any city in those times. No they could only come from one place....Our Coventry.

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Trev has posted many of his lyrics and the thought and activities behind their writing on his Vox space HERE

The brilliant 1980 Coventry Album SENT FOR COVENTRY produced by Martin Bowes of Alternative Sounds

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Magazine in Coventry and now in the band Attrition (who will be featured in the Retro Cov album is now available for download HERE

You can listen to excerpts from the tracks which include - The Wild Boys, Clique, The End, The Urge, Hot Snacks (Machine), Solid Action, The Mix, Vietnamese Babies, Squad, Riot Act, Protege, Homicide.

This is from the illustrious Two Tone Period in Coventry when Coventry was buzzing with musical life and bands. See the Alternative Sounds supplement with more info on the bands shortly - watch this space.
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02/06/2007

HOBO IN THE LOCAL PRESS

Top graphic by Lyndie - 1972 from the Communication books) CARTOON graphics by John Alderson for Hobo

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The first press coverage - Trev and Bo on the Music Scene in theCov Telegraph's On the Scene Supplement has

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been blogged earlier along with press cutting surrounding the Hobo Workshop and the Shut down Concert. These are cutting to do with Hobo Magazine and a press release. (Hobo Back actually appeared in the Coventry Review (a freebie) in Brian Week's music page Fri Feb 22nd 1974)

HOBO REFERENCE SHEET Feb 1974

HOBO No4 will be out next week and there will be a minimum charge of 5p. All money made from ads and sales are used to run the magazine.

SIZE OF MAGAZINE The actual size of the magazine will be smaller than No 3 but we’ll be able to pack more in by having the layouts reduced.

AVAILABLE FROM HOBO is available from Virgin Records / Music Centre and various music and record shops, discos, folk clubs and streetsellers etc..

IDEAS WELCOME HOBO is interested in any articles / poems / news / ideas / opinions / graphics / cartoons etc

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that anyone has or is willing to do.

CONTACT POINTS Trev Teasdel, 16 Laneside, Willenhall Wood, Coventry (no longer valid address) or Arthur Brown, 36, Mount St. Earlsdon, Coventry (again no longer valid address), or messages can be left at Virgin records.
BASIS OF PUBLICATION Owing to financial restrictions, it will be published on a bi-monthly basis. The next issue, No 5 will occur in June but it is hoped that by then we will be able to publish on a monthly basis as we originally intended.
AIMS The aims of HOBO are multi-fold. Briefly they are to provide a frame to: -

q Inspire more creativity and activity in the city.

q Promote activities of people already doing things and create more interest in them

q Provide a much-needed service for musicians and artists of all types with information and a free classified section similar in function to Melody Maker but on a local scale.

NEAR BY TOWNS

We intend to cover various nearby towns and already have found distributors in / Bedworth / and . however remains the nucleus of our interest.

OFFICE

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It is hoped, also, that eventually we can locate a room that we can utilise as some kind of office where we can be contacted. Preferably one that makes us accessible by phone as this presents a lot of problems for people trying to contact us.

SUPPLEMENT

There is the possibility (for the next issue, of the “People’s Awareness Group”) getting together (as a supplement to HOBO) a duplicated magazine dealing with articles on social problems and heavier things than HOBO carries. Whether this occurs remains to be seen.

BENEFIT

We are currently looking for a hall (at low cost) where we can stage a benefit concert for HOBO, to help pay off debts incurred in starting the magazine and give us some operating money. Money, as always, is the biggest obstacle!

MIXED MEDIA

One ambition we have, that we intend to fulfil in the near future, owing to the lack of live music in the city, is to get a

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room where we can hold what we call HUMPOESIC HAPPENINGS. Humpoesic is a composite word we’ve coined to mean humour music and poetry. The first ones were held at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club in 1972. These will be mixed media events that will be an outlet for local artists who don’t have many outlets for their talents. There will not be much in the way of financial gratification but at least it will be an outlet and place where people can go to see live entertainment, who don’t have much money.

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HOBO staff consist of Trev Teasdel – Editor / writer / layout

Arthur Brown – (from 1974) co-editor and distribution manager. HOBO is currently printed at the Birmingham Arts Lab on an Offset Litho.

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Notes
That was a press release sent to Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1974. The People’s Awareness supplement didn’t materialise. We used various offices temporarily but never had our own. We used the Sunshine Music Agency office in and later the Voluntary Service Council Office (to type the magazine). The Humpoesic Happening became the Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead youth centre (facilitated by Coventry Voluntary Service Council Youth Service).

(Graphic by Steve Knopinski of Birmingham band Ascension 1971)

Telegraph Letter

Brian Weeks Page

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02/01/2007

HOBO REPORT!

During the year or so of the Hobo Workshop 74 -75, I was also a full time student at Henley FE College on a Social

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Studies Course. I was involved with the Student Union and the college magazine - Flex. I was hoping to be able get Hobo printed through the Student Union but that didn't work out somehow - otherwise it may have continued. However I had to do a social work placement and as we had started the Hobo Workshop with a social element - the detached youth work with CCVS - I was able to nominate that as my placement! I had to do periodic reports. This one gives a synopsis of the Hobo work -

HOBO - Brief Histroy - 1974

Hobo began as a magazine in June 1973. It grew out of the need for a central grapevine to promote, in this culturally dormant city, anyhting that was happening in the area of music / arts and community ventures; to be an outlet for the creative talents of who ever took the trouble to contribute articles, poems, graphics etc. - and possibly inspire a bit of life into the city. The magazine was voluntarily staffed by myself and frineds and, although open to anyone, was youth orientated. It was financed largely by adverts and voluntary contributions but lack of substantial finance to keep up with rising print and paper costs, clamped a straightjacket on the magazine's potential. Also the quest for a relaible community based printer, that was less expensive than the commercial firms, was an equal burden. Many of the original ideas and intentions were kicked in the face by the cold facts of reality.

During this time we wanted to (having been involved with the Coventry Arts Umbrella) fill in the gaps caused by its abscence through it's lack of premises. We therefore wanted to start a music and arts workshop where people could come along and do whatever their particular 'thing' is. Somewhere where young people could do something contructive. However premises could not be found, that wouldn't involve paying a lot for the use of. Even somewhere for one evening a week only would have done. Beer bar rooms were reluctant to hire out their rooms from past experiences.

In June 1974, through the Umbrella contacts, we met Bob Rhodes, a newly appointed Detached Youth Workser fro the Coventry Voluntary Service Council, who wanted to be put in contact with young peole who may have problems with drugs or alacahol abuse, unemployment, homelessness etc. He was able to help facilitated use in regard to a venue to hold the Hobo Workshop and we asisted him in providing a base to operate an informal youth advisory service where people could get help with problems discretely and informally. This had been also been one of the aims of one of the founding editors of Hobo..

Thus we began to run the Hobo Workshop every Monday evening, in the Holyhead Youth Centre theatre. This served us well for a while. There we had use of the theatre and several small rooms. and held concerts with locla bands (rock, folk, blues, Jazz rock) and local folk or acoustic players, songwriters, poets etc. We also held a number of jam sessions ( a few unsuccessful ones too!). We tried against overwhelming oddities, to break down the 'them and us'' between audience and performers, and make people aware that, although we run the basic programme, they are welcome to participate or if they don't like what happens, to suggest things they would like to see happen. We wanted them to feel like they had a stake in it - that it was their place. Several acoustic workshops were held in the smaller rooms (where refreshments were served) and people could jam, swop songs, play to each other. The more competent musicians passed on tips to novices. Quite a few bands got together as a result of the jam sessions. It was somewhere to meet and try out musicians. Some of the musicians, notably Neol Davies, ventured downstairs and jammed with the West Indian musicians in the cellar youth club. Meanwhile Bob Rhodes were able to operate informally with their youth advisory service as well as building up a group of volunteers to train and assist with a projected Drop in House for Young People. I was one of the volunteers.

At first the venue was well attended, but the Youth Centre was too off the beaten track to consistently attract the youth that flocked into the city centre pubs. The Holyhead lacked a bar and many in the audience would disappear

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half way through to the pub, returning later or bringing back bottles. When the Golden Cross appointed a new and enterprising landlord, the Hobo Workshop moved there. We had use of the upstairs room and a programme of music events bagan at the Golden Cross. The Cross was already popular among students from the Lanch Plytech and musicians and this cut the cost of advertising. However we wer more restricted interms of rooms.

There was no entrance charge as a) that would probably have reduced the number of people coming along. B) it meant we would have to put on 'a good show' to give people their money's worth, which would dampen any attempts to promote the creative element and get people involved or join in the jam sessions which might not always work out. C) it would contribute to the 'them and us' concept which we wer trying to break down. Instead we passed the hat around and encourage people to make voluntary donations to cover ours and the band's basic expenses. Usually this worked well with those unable to pay still able to come along and those more wealthy contribute more. It usually worked out the same as if we had a fixed charge for everyone but with a larger audience. however there was some heated disagreement between members of the organising team on this policy, but it ws more conducice to our aims.

POSSIBLE FUTURE ACTION
We are trying to expand the range of music and encourage people to attend and contribute ideas. Some of us are trying to form a Street-theatre group with some students from the Lanch Polytech. We also aim to try and organise something for the workshop in ocnjunction with the Lanch Arts Festival in February. It is also possible, time and money permitting , that we produce another issue of Hobo magazine for Christmas or January. Bob is trying to organise a Youth Drop in House and we want to put on a Hobo - Coventry Arts Festival., embracing all kinds of arts and people who are doing things in the city. If this materialises, it probably will be later in 75 when the weather improves. Amen!!

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Vallhalla was a band from near Birmingham who John Bo suggested for the Hobo Workshop - here is their letter and card.

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Vallhalla Letter

MENTIONED IN BOOKS

The Holyhead Youth Centre in the mid 70's has been mentioned in two books that I know of -

In the work of Rock Sociologist Simon Frith who was at the Lanch Poly Technic in Coventry for a while (80's I think). I can't remember which of his books but it was only a pargraph. If I find it, I'll put on here. His Books include The Sociology of Rock and Sound Effects
Also more recently in Coventry's own retro music expert Pete Chambers's book The 2-Tone Trail (The definitive guide to Two Tone Coventry) which has a forward by Neol Davies. The book is in the side bar under books. In this guide to all things Two Tone - the Holyhead Youth Club (Lower Holyhead Rd) is mentioned. "Just a basement in the mid 70's, but a defining moment in 2-Tone history. It was here that blues influenced reggae was mixed by the likes of Neol Davies, Ray King, Lynval Golding and Silverton. "it was here where I first met Jerry Dammers". The Hobo Workshop was in the ground floor theatre. Neol Davies had gone downstairs and jammed with some of the guys as early as autumn 1974. The hope was that the guys from the basement would play upstairs at the Workshop. Already by the time the Workshop moved to the Golden Cross - Neol had a good working relationship with the guys (which included Charley and Desmond and Silverton, and some of them came to the Golden Cross although they didn't play for us. There would be a good four years worth of development before Two Tone would emerge on the world stage. Two years later (Neol was playing in Hardtop 22 - an early incarnation of the Two Tone bands).Selecter to be Charley Anderson, was a Voluntary Youth Worker with Coventry City Council at the Holyhead. After the Hobo Workshop finished, the basement of the youth centre became the base of further developments leading to the Two Tone phenomenon. Pete Chambers reveals that Jerry, Lynval, Horace and Tim Strickland reheased there. Again according to Chambers, the Holyhead later recieved a rennovation grant from the Cadbury's trust and Amos Anderson created a youth based recording studio there - later the Glasshouse. It's clear the Holyhead Youth Centre story didn't end after Hobo finished in the autumn of 1975. After I moved to Teesside in 1980, I used to get reports of the developments at the Holyhead from some of the people involved.

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01/26/2007

HOBO WORKSHOP - About

The HOBO Music and Arts Workshop 1974 / 75 was community based venture that was the culmination of a number

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of threads and a desire to develop more support and facilities for local bands, artists and poets in Coventry and resources for young people with problems such as homelessness, drug or alcohol dependencies, unemployment and so forth. It was both a culmination of previous work and (with hindsight) a defining moment leading to new developments on the Coventry music and arts scene. Also it was a kind of bridge between the fading hippy music scene and the developing punk scene (although one would not know that punk was about to happen, there was a sea-change in the air with a Bowie and Lou Reed sensibility).

There were two main threads to to it -

A crying need for more facilities for bands, artists and poets in the city - rehearsal space, equipment, venues to get started at, venues to experiment with new material, cross-art forms, musician cooperation etc.
Advice and Support for young people with problems. (Photo by kind permision of Pete Chambers - from his book The 2 -Tone Trail see books in the side bar for more details)

The Hobo Workshop, based at the Holyhead Youth Centre and later upstairs at the Golden Cross

The first thread was for band facilities etc. came from -

My involvement with the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club from 1970 onwards. The Umbrella provided a venue and rehearsal space but was limited by space. On advice from the Umbrella Executive I had called on the local authority for help with providing rehearsal space and venues to no avail. When the Umbrella Club in Queen Victoria Rd. was condemned, the Umbrella found itself homeless or drifting from temporary base to temporary base before being given space at the Charterhouse in 1974. It was clear the band scene was not going to be part of the new Umbrella. This left a huge support gap for upcoming and existing musicians. The Hobo Workshop took up the mantle.
In 1970 Broadgate Gnome and the Diggers movement did much inspirational ground work for local musicians and artists, with reviews of gigs, articles on local bands, concerts and the digger's 'hole' - an artists collective in the bomb hole (outside the Golden Cross.). Although I wasn't involved with it, the Gnome published an article (re-published on this blog) about the Tribal Rock Music Co-operative. It seemed to be a national underground musician network which had synergies with the later Music Collective ethos. The initiative was lost in Coventry (at least) when the Gnome folded in 1971 but the idea of it stayed with me in the creation of the Hobo Workshop. Both Neol Davies and Arole had been involved both with the Tribal Rock gig and the Umbrella and both got involved in some way with the Hobo Workshop.
Hobo magazine itself had started off by campaigning for wider facilities in its pages and in it's press releases.
In terms of format was influenced by the experimental Humpoesic Happenings I organised at the Coventry Arts Umbrella and the Birmingham Streetpress gigs already blogged about here.

The second thread was for Youth advisory support which came out of -

The petition against the RU 18 squad busting underage drinkers without the local authority looking at the issue of a modernised youth provision for young people who were disatisfied with the traditional youth provision, who were intersted in bands and creative pursuits which were only available in City Centre pubs. Collection of signatures for the petition which also called for more facilities for bands, poets and artists led to the creation of Hobo.

Bo (John Bargeant) who became the first co-editor of Hobo and it's co-founder had worked for Release in London and took up the advisory thread by creating Central Point as a second thread to Hobo Magazine. It was advertised in the first edition of Hobo and in the Coventry Evening Telegraph Article. We had practically secured the use of a room in Bardsley House for Bo's Central Point when Bo left Hobo to be Road Manager on Khyyam's European tour.

HOW THE HOBO WORKSHOP CAME ABOUT

The Broadgate Gnome and the Diggers had taken a more confrontational stance to secure facilities given that the Local Authority didn't see the needs (as often they still don't) to facilitiate youth and creative initiatives coming up from the grass roots. Young people had long hair and an ethos that challanged blatant commericalism. A few like Ron Morgan, the Labour Councillor, had the vision to see the positive side and help facilitate but campaigning for facilities was going mostly against the grain.

Hobo was mostly me and a few changing co-editors and supporters. We weren't back up or supported by a national organisation like the Diggers movement. Confrontation is much harder for individuals. I figured if we could get somethings up and running ourselves (albeit with limited resources) and show the value, demonstrate the need, then maybe the powers that be may just be impressed enough to help a little with facilities and support. Probably not but I thought it worth a try and nothing much else was happening. Most of Coventry's top bands had split up and the new emerging bands were becoming demoralised by lack of decent venues to get started at and rehearsal space.

The first step toward the Hobo Workshop came in 1973 when I approached the Coventry Arts Umbrella for help

Umbrella - Hobo

with printing Hobo. Unlike Alternative Sounds later on who managed to persuade the Lanch Poly to print their magazine free, we had no free printing facilities available to us. The reason it came out irregularly was because of the cost of printing. I hated the duplicated affair, prefered it to be Offset Litho'd but beggars can''t be choosers so rather than nothing coming out, some issues were duplicated at the loss of quality. Ideally I wanted a production like Streetpoems (exampled on this blog somewhere).

Letter from CCVS

With the loss of the Umbrella's premises, the Excutive meetings were held at the Coventry Voluntary Service Council HQ in Lower Holyhead Rd. It's Chairman Henry West was also on the Umbrella executive. He was aware of my involvement with the Umbrella band nights and had followed the development of Hobo Magazine, Bo's idea for Central Point, and that the magazine was (to an extent) the voice of young people in the city centre area interested in creative pursuits and that we had identified some important needs. Henry was aware that the situation had worsened with the loss of the Umbrella. He told me he had just employed a Detached Youth Worker for the Voluntary Service Council to be an informal advisor facilitator for young people in the city centre area. He felt that we could help each other. Bob Rhodes, the youth Worker needed to be able to reach and interact with young people in order to do the job and Hobo had direct contact and involvement and we needed facilities - printing, office space, a venue, PA, rehearsal space and a grant! He suggested we meet

Letter from Bob Rhodes

Although the Hobo Editorial were annoyingly treated (in documentation) as receipients of 'help' in order to justify the worker's time and involvent in the project, we at least were able to get use of the Holyhead Youth Centre every Monday night to put on bands / mixed media gigs and network. Bob would attend to operate his informal advice service. A type writer and desk was offered at CCVS for the production of Hobo and Bob also gave me a reference that got me onto a Social Studies Course at Henly College and a temporary job as a Play Leader on an Adventure playgound. I was thus able to get the Social Work Placement element of the course to be with CCVS shadowing Bob Rhodes as an informal advisor at the Hobo Workshop!

Although the object of the Hobo Workshop was not to make 'stars' many of the struggling young bands we fostered encouraged, became recording artists.More on that in the Hobo Workshop Bands Section.

WHO WAS INVOLVED AND WHAT WAS THEIR ROLE

We formed a Committee consisting of - (although it wasn't strictly adhered to with comings and going) -

Trev Teasdel and Bob Rhodes co-ordinaters (and administered the informal detached Youth work elelment.)

Liz Scott (music fan) - Chairwomen - Typing

Trev Teasdel, Paul Samson (musician in Trigon - ex Mick Green Blues Band and later Reluctant

Reluctant Stereotypes

Stereotypes), Gordon, and Digger Arol (Ex co-founder of Broadgate Gnome - Bands

Gary Kirton (Musician in Trigon (Ex Whistler) - Transport

Joe (music fan) - Decorating and Door

Mick (music fan) - Advertisments

Finn - Door

Julian Adams (Umbrella Club Executive memeber) - Electronics

Bo (John Bargeant) (Hobo co-founder and promoter / DJ)- Publicity / Disco

Julie Clark (from CCVS) and Liz Scott to run coffee bar

Paul Sampson (musician) to organise Talent Comp

Bo to organise poster competition.

Neol Davies (Lead Guitarist Mead- later Two Tone co-founder) - Jam Sessions

Lynn Hardcastle
Colin Cripps - (musicians and editors of Willenhall Free Press - Later The Mountain Ash Band) musical and publicity support

Phil Knapper (Stu Knapper of Riot Act's older brother) - support and musical accompaniment for poetry and music session.

Colin Armstrong (Singer Song Writer - Ex Music Box with Rob Armstrong) - Musical and publicity and oraganisational support

Neil O'Connor (Musician - Midnight Circus - later The Flys and Hazel O'Connor band) - musician support.
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Arthur Brown (not the famous one

(Flys Formerly Midnight circus

this time!) Singer songwriter and Hobo co-editor.

Andy Cairns (Lead guitarist in Breaker with Horace Panter) - musician and technical support

Kevin Buckley - Researcher with CCVS

The advice element led to the creation of a Drop in House for Young People called S.H.A.C.K. in 1975.

From Bob Rhodes CCVS report June/July 1974
"The most notable feature of this period has been the development of my involvement with the Hobo group.....
on the activities side, which is the focal point for this group, they have produced their first magazine since February,

Draft of Hobo's Urban Aid Bid

using my office for typing facilities and my contacts for obtaining cheap duplicating paper. Also I have been able to obtain use of the Holyhead Rd. Youth Centre, with its theatre facilities, for them to use as an Arts Workshop - the first evening, when a local rock band played for expenses, was attended by 60 young people and this appraoch is proving very successful in extending my network of contacts. I hope to obtain L.A. grant aid for this project as two obvious necessities are a PA system and a van for transport of people and plant."

Although we never managed to get an LA grant or an Urban Aid grant, CCVS did pay for a second hand 50 watt PA for the workshop.

FROM HOBO NO 5 unpublished November 1974

THE HOBO WORKSHOP - Let's Get it On!

Where is it?
The Hobo Workshop, which started in June 1974 at the Holyhead Youth Centre, has moved recently to upstairs at the GOLDEN CROSS in Hay Lane. The workshop operates every Monday night and is free to get in, althugh we pass the hat around to cover the petrol expenses of the bands.

What is it?

It is a creative workshop, as opposed to straight concert, where not only bands (newly started or more established) can come and play their brand of music but anyone came along and 'Do their thing' , be it music, poetry, street-theatre, fire eating or whatever! If you'd like to do something; if you have any ideas about things you'd like to see happen at the workshop; if you'd like to organise a Jam session or anything else - give us a call. Our aim is to provide a place where you can do these things, or get together whatever you want (within reason of course!).

We've Made our Effort - It's Up To You Now.

So come along and take advantage of it or come along and enjoy it. Come in fancy dress if you like, use your imagination and help us break down the 'them and us' scene that seems to exist around here. We provide a basic co-ordination to avoid total chaos but it is loosly applied to accomodate whatever anyone wants to do.

So come along and and put away your 'do it yourself concert critic set' Kick out your Jams and come and helps us get a creative and friendly scene going.

Anyone wishing to know more write to HOBO or come up to the Golden Cross on a Monday night and ask for Trev Teasdel, Liz Scott or John Bo.

We'd like to thank Midnight Circus, Fisson, Trigon, Analog, Khayym and all the other bands that have played for us so far and Colin Armstrong, Dave Bennett, Moonraker Disco, Andy Cairns, Julian Adams, John Rushton, Ann Barton, Tony Unwin Bob Rhodes and Oh - too many to name.

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HOBO WORKSHOP - THE BANDS AND MIXED MEDIA

Analog at Hobo Workshop74 Holyhead Youth Centre

The Hobo Workshop operated for roughly one year between June 1974 and

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June 1975 (ish). The regular Monday night mixed media music concerts, first at the Holyhead Youth Centre and subsequently upstairs at the Golden Cross, were the central focus of the Hobo Workshop. Although I co-ordinated it with Bob Rhodes, there were a range of people involved with the workshop (listed on the about the Workshop post) on a co-operative basis who were invovled in all aspects eg I even cleaned the toilets out and took a turn on the door as did others. Although many of the musicians below later made it in the music business, the intention was to provide a venue for bands to get started at, try out new material and get support.

Among the bands who played there were - Fission, Midnight Circus, Trigon, Analog, Under the Sun, Schizoid, Memories, Phoenix, Marantha, Breaker, Just Before Dawn, Warrior, Khayyam, Fisty, Vallhallah.

Solo or other artists that played in some form included singer songwriter Colin Armstrong, Phil Knapper, Dave

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Bennett, Bob Rhodes, Johnny Adams, John Alderson, John Gravenor, Neol Davis, Colin Cripps, Lynda Hardcastle, Nikki Hawkswell, Bill Jackson, Andy Cairns, Ricky, Trev Teasdel, John Rushton, Horace Panter. (This is not all embracing - just names I remember or on the gig lists etc.)

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That there was a dearth of places for bands to get started or supported at that time was illustrated when one young band - maybe Under the Sun (can't remember) almost begged for a gig - they were a teenage band and about to give up) of course we gave them a gig and encouraged them. I think it was Gary Kirton who described us one night as the only human beings in the city - as we gave them a regular spot. Such was the state of things, that the Workshop for some bands was like an oasis. Many of the top Coventry bands had split up, the Umbrella had gone along with some of the other venues and new bands were struggling for survival.

Fission were one of the early bands we had one but split up soon after with Guitarist Rick Thawn joining Trigon. The other guitarist - Johnny Adams played solo for us. (He later played with Squad)
Trigon became one of our regular bands with jazz rock feel. (Paul Sampson would go on to play with Ens /

Trigon

Reluctant Stereotypes with Paul King / Pink Umbrellas and became one of the country's top producers, producing the Primitives and Catalonia.
Analog were another regular and very innovative band who hadn't played a gig until the Hobo workshop, having spent a year perfecting a 40 minute suite called Custers last stand, they were at last ready try it out in front of an audience. Mick Hartley, Steve Edgeson, Paul Brook all went on to form Reluctant Steroetypes with Paul Samson - the band that had Paul King as lead singer. The band King was a break away for the stereotypes in the 80's.
Midnight Circus - were again a regular and very popular band at the workshop, led by singer / guitarist Neil O'Connor. Nobody would know at that time that his sister Hazel O'Connor would be such a huge success in five years in time. Bob Rhodes, the youth worker at the Hobo Workshop, himself a musician, took to managing them. later in 1979 (ish) I saw them after a punk concert at Warwick University, dressed in punk gear. They told me they had changed their name to The Flys and had just made a single - Molotov Cocktail and were going to promote it on The Old Grey Whistle Test. A year later Hazel broke through and Neil became the guitarist / producer in her road band.
Colin Armstrong had gone solo after spliting from Music Box with Rob Armstrong. Rob of course became reknowned for his guitar making, producing guitars for George Harrison and Bert Jansch. Colin was a great supporter of the Hobo Workshop and played for us many times. We even formed a little band with Colin, Bob Rhodes and myself but it didn't go anywhere!
Colin Cripps and Lynda Hardcastle (later of the legendary Mountain Ash Band) came along to play and sing and always brought a crowd. They are written about elsewhere on this blog.

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Neol Davies came along. I wanted Neol to organise a jam at the workshop like the one he'd done earlier at the

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Umbrella club. Downstairs in the basement of the Holyhead Youth Centre was a group of West Indian musicians. I went down to invite them to join us. They said they would think about it - the group were unsure of the response I think at the time. In the end it was Neol Davis who went down and jammed with them on the blues and built a rapport with them. Apart from Charley, there was Desmond, Silverton and Lynval. In 5 year stime these musicians developing their confidence in the basement of the Holyhead Youth Centre would be causing a sensation as part of the Selecter and Specials. They still didn't play for us but Neol persuaded them to come along when we moved to the Golden Cross. A year or so later I worked with Neol for a temping agency at Argos in Daventry. He used to pick us up in the band van at some unearthly hour in the morning. By then he had formed a band with them called Hardtop 22. After a bit more evolution the Specials and Selector would emerge and the rest is history!

Hobo Workshop

We got to have the jam session when we moved to the Golden Cross some time in 1975. Neol was there and a lot of musicians from now defunct top Coventry bands. Among the musicians who jammed at the Golden Cross were John Gravenor and Nikki Hawkswell who both sang some blues, Neol on guitar, Andy Cairns, Bill Jackson (former vocalist with April, Roy Butterfield (Ex Indian Summer, Tim James (I think), John Rushton of Analog, Horace Panter, Ricky, Phil Knapper, Carl , John (Brad) Bradbury (about 13 musicians took part).

Phil Knapper - was a regular supporter and a really good friend. A singer-songwriter who could play pop / rock

Stu Knapper

Classical and Bert Jansch. He would often back me on some poetry and music experimental pieces and we did form an informal band - mostly covers, with Andy Cairns. Phil's younger brother Stu Knapper would later head the punk band Riot Act. Phil has since passed away but I have some songs of his I recorded which I hope to up load in tribute to him. Phil suffered from Schizophrenia which held him back but he was actually a very talented guitarist and he taught me loads.

Andy Cairns - was another Hobo Workshop regular - a lead guitarist who I met at Henley College and got involved

Horace

with the music scene. Andy became a great friend and again some one who taught me loads guitar wise and vice versa. Andy formed a band with a guy we used to jam with called Ricky. It had Andy's friend Carl in it (I think) and Horace Panter (later of the Specials). They did Jazz rock material and I think they were called Breaker. They played for us at the Golden Cross. Horace had written to Hobo as early as 1973 to place an ad for a 'Happy Band'. As Hobo didn't always come out on schedual

Hobo Band List

owing to lack of finance, Horace had found a band by the time the ad appeared but he did later come to the Hobo Workshop at the Golden Cross which I think is where he met Andy and Ricky. Later I formed a Pentangle type group with Andy c 1979. The bass player was Selecter's roadie and Van driver.

Horace Panter's Letter to Hobo Magazine in the 70's

o wever Andy went off to Aberystwyth to do a Phd in Biology and became a folkie and I moved up to Teesside to do a BA in Humanities so that was the end of that band! Although we were folk, we did do a ska version of my song Mrs Stress and Strain I seem to remember. You had to get a gig after Two Tone broke! We also covered Pentangles Cruel Sister.

Bo (John Bargeant) who I co-founded Hobo with returned with Khayyam

Hobo cross2

from their european tour. Bo did the Moonraker disco for us at the Cross and Khayyam gig for us there, leading to a residency their. Other band nights were beginning to take off at the Cross before the Hobo Workshop finished after the summer 1975, with the Coventry supergroup - Monster Magnet

Hobo Workshop - Midnight Circus

taking a regular spot as well as Khayyam.

HOBO presents, Monday July 8th, a double bill at lower Holyhead Road

Hobo Workshop with Fission

Youth centre, near Coventry Garage, Trigon and an Acoustic Workshop, featuring Johnny Adams, John Alderson & Trev Teasdel. 10p

(Small ad From Coventry Evening

Hobo Workshop with Midnight Circus +

Telegraph July 8th 1974)

Leter from Bo

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HOBO WORKSHOP - Underground Films,Street -Theatre, Trench Coat

I's fortgotten until I looked thrugh the letters I sent to the unedited versions of the letters I sent to the Coventry Evening Telgraph in relation to the Shut Down Coventry Shopping Precinct Concert, there more things being planned. A few got through but some of the ideas didn't. This post is to logged the the ones 'that got away', mainly through lack of funding and wider support, not to mention time llocation. It was an intense and active period.

Underground film club - idea came from the Umbrella's Transcendental Cauldron - the first event I'd

Hobo Workshop Movies

attended coupled with the fact that there was a request from some of the users for a alternative film night when we petitioned them for their own ideas and views of what the Workshop should do.This was achieved - each friday night a projector was cranked up and a film group recruited from those attending the monday music nights watched a range of films. Bo (John Bargeant) organised and operated the projector both for this and his discos at Hobo in which he played films as the music was playing. The film club started with a few old comedy movies too.
Street-theatre Group - The ground floor of the Holyhead Youth Centre was actually a theatre with a stage and

Hobo Wokshop - Drama

dressing rooms. It had been use for rehearsals by the Belgrade Theatre. Some of the group were interested in dram. I wanted to mix the medias and liked the idea of having a street theatre group that might perform during the band nights and also go out on the streets and generate publicity for the Hobo Workshop. To get the ball rolling - I used to raid the costume deptment behind the stage, dress up strange and perform Dylan songs on the door as people came in and paid their money, to set the tone that it was (hopefully) a creative venue and people could be creative in various ways - where fancy dress, dance wildly / creativley. A small group formed around this but I don't remember it taking off as well as I would have liked. I can't remember who they were (it's so long ago) but a Sarah and Andy took charge of organising this acording to a duplicated poster you see on here.
Trenchcoat - I'd forgotten this until I re-read the unedited letter I sent to the editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph over the shut down concert incident. I was planning another magazine - Trenchcoat - that would deal with wider issues than Hobo but might also incorporate Hobo magazine. These may have been environmental, life style, campaigning issues (for better facilities) and features.
Coventry Arts Festival - We also announced plans in the letter for a Coventry Arts Festival in 1975 'incorporating local talent of all varieties, with some events being organised by Hobo and other organised by other organisations but incorporated into the programme. It will be intended to appeal to as many people as possible without mercenary objective." This never materialised ( well not through Hobo anyway - there was one in the 80's).

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HOBO WORKSHOP - Shut Down Precinct Concert

THE HOBO WORKSHOP COVENTRY PRECINCT SWITCHED OFF POP CONCERT (Photo shows where the bands played)

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On September 1974 on a Saturday, the Hobo Workshop organised a a morning concert in Coventry city centre near the

Hobo shut down concert Cov Journal

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ountains. Youth worker Bob Rhodes, in his official capacity, took care of the permissions, from the Chamber of Commerce and the Council etc. We took care of the creative side. The object was to publicise the work of the Hobo Workshop and get more people involved.

We had a number of artists lined up including the middle of the road pop band Memories, (which we thought might help balance things out with passers by) Phoenix (a rock band) and
Folkies - Rod Felton and Dave Bennett (Ragtime Guitarist). We figired there was a good cross-section of music that would appeal to all ages and taste. Using an 80 watt PA the show

Shut Down Hobo Concert

kicked off with the pop band Memories doing pop covers. We got a really good audience around us both on the ground and up on the stairs of the shopping precinct. Memories were helpful in helping to appeal for lost persons, children and various people were happily reunited. We had not sense that anybody at all was upset bu the concert - quite the oppostie - there was a really good vide and great turn out.

So it was a complete shock to us

Hobo shut down concert F. Page CET

when the police turned up half way through Memories set and told us turn the amps right down, claming there had been comlaints by paasers by who had to put their hand over their ears. They calinmed they could hear the music half a mile a way at Little Park police station. (Lucky them!). We'd hardly got started and we had done all the

Hobo shut down concert Liz Letter CET

right things, got all the right permissions.Word on the street was they'd seen our long hair and reacted. Later the Sally Army and a choir played using a 100 watt amp - much louder than ours - but they were respectable - we were not apparently. Then someone brough along the luch time editon of the Coventry Evening Telegraph. We'd hit the front page - 'Concert Deafens

Hobo shut down concert EditorialCET

Shoppers' read the header! 'What!' This galvanised us into action. In actual fact they did us a favour shutting it down - it got us a weeks publicity which included a front pager, two letters to the edito, an editorial dedicated to us and several smaller inside pieces in two papers - The Telegraph and the

Coventry Evening Telegraph letter

Coventry Journal - the Telegraph's rival of the time. We would have been lucky to get a small column mention on the Saturday if it hadn't been shut down. All the same a lot of work had gone into it and people were disappointed and it seemed that even when young people do good things, the iron-hand of the law comes down on them. We

Hobo shut down concert Trev letterCET

resolved to bombard the newspapers with complaints, letters, phone calls and encouraged all our supporters to do the same. I sent three long letters (one full of TS Elliot quotes about the Wasteland in order to make our feelings plain. It was also a good opportunity like the RU 18 petition, to get over some of our wider aims and objectives. A petition was another strategy the Bob Rhodes organised. Bob went in to the Newsaper office in an offical capacity. We got 6 or 7 peices in the paper over one week and turned a negative into a positive!

Just after HOBO - the magazine began - and we were in the paper Trev and Bo on the Music Scene - Virgin Records held a concert in their store with Virgin band Gong. They too had been shut down and somebody wrote in to the Coventry Evening Telgraph with a protest quote from Both Hobo and the articel about us - hence -

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